OpenRoads Designer Managing Civil Geometry from Simple to...

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OpenRoads Designer Managing Civil Geometry from Simple to Complex

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Learning Objectives

This session intends to define concepts of OpenRoads Geometry and cover some commonly asked questions on it’s use. This session intends to provide something for the novice user through to expert user.

• Reference Lectures Material

– Previous Learn Conferences

• Best Practice Geometry

– CivilAccuDraw, MicroStation AccuDrawor Both (Lecture )

– QuickStart: OpenRoads Technology Geometry (Workshops)

– Creating and Editing Alignment Geometry (Workshops)


Managing Civil Geometry from Simple to Complex

This best practice session intends to cover some of the background to and most frequently asked questions on the creation and editing of geometry.

Hopefully, we’ll expose you to some things that you may not know, so that everyone from the novice user to the expert will be able to take something away from this session that will be beneficial.

At the end, we’ll look at a few “new” capabilities in OpenRoads Designer.


Agenda

• Geometry - where have we come from

– The drivers for change

• OpenRoads Geometry

– Getting Started

– Tools

– Workflows

• NEW Tools introduced in 2018


Geometry - where we’ve come from


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The drivers for change

• Legacy processes

Disconnected Workflows

Multiple tools doing the same / similar

thing

Difficult to Learn for new users

No Undo

No relationships

Manual updates

Sharing / CopyingGreater efficiency

Confidence

Object modelling

Savings


Introduction to Civil Geometry – SELECTseries2

Lets focus on the phrase

‘Civil tools create geometry with rules and associations that provide intelligent updating –Design Intent’

Originally seen way back in SELECTseries 2 as new Horizontal Geometry capability


Introduction to Civil Geometry – SELECTseries 3

Openroads Civil Geometry facilitates design intent and intelligent updates locally and through federated files

# user controlled update


Introduction to Civil Geometry – OpenRoads Designer

Openroads Civil Geometry facilitates design intent and intelligent updates locally and through federated files


OpenRoads Geometry


Characteristics of Openroads Geometry

• MicroStation graphical elements with added intelligence. Created with rules and relationships that provide intelligent updating –Design Intent

• Interactive / Dynamic user experience

– Easier to Learn

– Edit handlers, manipulators

– Context sensitive toolbars

– In-Place Editing

– Heads up prompting keeps your focus on your work.

• Supports multiple data sources ALG, GPK and FIL, LandXML


OpenRoads Geometry – Getting Started


Getting Started

• Connected User

• Personal Portal

• Connect Advisor

– Communities

– Learn Server

– You Tube


Getting Started – Look and Feel

• ORD Back Stage

• Settings > User > Preferences

– Look and feel

• Settings > File > Design file settings

– Units

– Civil formatting

• Stationing

• Radius

• Profile



• Manipulators have to work for you so make them your own personal preferences

– Change the colour to suit your background

– Change the size to suit your eyesight and screen



• Manipulators not available ?

– Handles turned off

– Zoomed out or partially off screen

– Stored in a Reference file

• Activate / exchange

– Imported without rules (think read only)



• Civil Model and Element info

– Geometry is stored in the following containers

• OpenRoads Designer

– Alignments (New in CONNECT)

– Linear

– It’s all Geometry

– Features provide default Geometry naming

– Sorting by Feature Definition > Element Name

– Use to navigate / highlight and element within a complex



Project Explorer > Civil Model – Updated for ORD

Provides the container for the Civil Model – Alignments (new in ORD)

– Linear Elements

– Point Elements

– 3D Linear

– Terrain Models

– Corridors

– Superelevation

– Civil Objects

– Civil Cells

– Reference Models


Understanding The Geometry Model

• Project Explorer

New In Openroads Designer

– Alignments

– Sorting based on Feature Definition > Name

– Search


Understanding The Geometry Model - Rules

• Rules

– Relationship – cause / effect

• Line / Arc / Spiral from / to

• Line / Arc between

• Offset from

• Slope from

• Etc

– Includes

• Snaps

• Civil Accudraw

– Multiple Rule Buckets

• Geometry

• Corridor


Understanding The Geometry Model - Rules

• Rules– Rule Management

• Lock / Unlock Rule #

– Can’t edit / delete / no manipulators

• Lock / Unlock Referencing Rules #

– Children are locked and don’t update

• Remove Rule

# sometimes a toggle or explicit command


OpenRoads Geometry – Getting Started


Getting Started – Import / Export Geometry

• Import Geometry – looks to native product formats and third party file types

– GPK - GEOPAK

– ALG - InRoads

– .FIL - MX

– LandXML

– ASCii H&V

– IFC Alignment

– Genio

– Import Horizontal Points from Ascii File


Getting Started – Import Geometry


What we just saw– Import Geometry

• Create Civil Rules - What does this mean ?

• Ruled Geometry (improved in ORD)

– Promotes the Geometry to the DGN

– Creates dynamically editable civil geometry H&V

• Un-Ruled Geometry

– Read only Geometry to the DGN

– Only provides Station controls

– Vertical can have new profile defined and applied

– Maintains control to the Native application / re-import


Geometry Intervals - what are they ? What are the benefits

• Intervals are the visible presentation of underlying base geometry

• Intervals have external rules applied to them and so dynamically react to changes

– Trim / Extend

– Gaps

• Creates New named Element with rule to the parent with the base (hidden) geometry provides the ‘provenance’ that facilitates part of what we refer to as ‘design intent’


Geometry Intervals - How can they be edited / removed ?

• Interval presentation

– Intervals are displayed ‘dimmed’ to help identify intervals

– Prior to update 2 the controlling base element properties were displayed

• Interval editing

– How to access the interval

• Simplify Geometry

– Where there is no dependent rule allows the base elements in a complex to be simplified down to the interval

– Works for both horizontal and vertical

– Option to keep base element


Enhanced Presentation in Update 2


Horizontal Geometry Updates and Changes

How To…• Insert PI

– Use Insert Vertex to insert PI to horizontal alignment

• Delete PI and Remove Curves

– Use Delete Vertex to remove PI’s which can also remove horizontal curves

• Insert Curves

– Use Insert Fillet tool if you need to insert a curve or curve combinations between tangents on previously create alignment

• Append Elements

– If you need to add additional elements to the beginning or end of alignment

• Really Mess Things Up

– What not to do!


Geometry Updates and Changes

How To…

• Insert VPI

– Use Insert Vertex to insert VPI to vertical alignment

• Delete VPI and Removes Curves

– Use Delete Vertex to remove VPI’s which in turn remove vertical curves

• Insert Curves

– Use Profile Insert Curve tool if you need to insert a curve

• Append Elements

– If you need to add additional elements to the beginning or end of alignment


Complex Geometry editing

• New Geometry Paradigm

– impact of

• Rules & relationships

• Reference files


Complex Geometry Editing Options

• Legacy edits

– Export to the tools we know, edit, round trip

• Drop – edit rebuild

– REMEMBER – Civil Geometry is more than just CAD graphics

– In the early stages this can be ok but the project develops this can give rise to rule issue and ‘static’ models due to lost refences

• Substitute Geom

– Allows the corridor to be reassigned to new geom


Complex Geometry editing Options - Complex Redefine

– Provides a different workflow for complex editing of ‘ruled geometry’


Complex Geometry editing Options - Complex Redefine

Remember

– Link maintained for common elements

– Projects vertical (the new horizontal will be different so this is a best first attempt)


Complex Geometry editing Options – Table Editor (H&V)

NOTE :- Table Editor ‘Simplifies the geometry’


Complex Geometry editing Options – Table Editor (H&V)

Demo


What’s coming in• OpenRoad and OpenRail Designer Q4 2019


Complex Geometry editing Options – Geometry Builder

– Provides ‘COGO’ workflows

– Really powerful geometry creation / editing tools

• Element Highlight

• Move element up/down

• Insert element before/after


Complex Geometry editing Options – Transform

– Allows custom ‘Transformation’ to be defined and saved for reuse for one or more

• Move / rotate / scale

• Z transform

• Defined by

– Cursor Point

– Points

– Deltas

– Caution – ‘Transform’ ‘Simplifies’ the geometry – AKA removes rules


Complex Geometry editing Options – Copy Vertical

– Allows ‘Complex Redefine’ with true not projected Geometry

Demo

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